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A Mining Junkie Reveals Five Great Mining Resources
I love to mine. I'm addicted to it. I spend entire evenings running around looking for minerals. I've smelted for 40 minutes straight multiple times. I trained myself past artisan BEFORE level 25. Suffice it to say, it's my favorite part of the game.
I lost a bet with a co-mining freak and therefore have to reveal five favorite, reliable, and not-so-obvious resources for everyone who cares to look.
Sorry this list is Alliance friendly, my brand new Orc miner is just starting to get his bearings in Durotar.
I have some tried and true places for finding iron, coal and thorium that I'll never reveal, but if you're seriously into mining, here are some tips for finding the good stuff.
1. One of the best places in the game to find truesilver, mithril and gold is The Charred Vale (especially if you don't want to get killed in the process of mining it). Even a player in the high-teens or low-20s can mine here if they concentrate on stealth. Just run laps around the edge of the vale and you'll find heaps of everything from copper to truesilver. It's the single best place I've found in the whole game to increase your mining skill. In general, The Stonetalon Mountains are unbelieveably rich with minerals of all kinds (except thorium). On a strategy note, the harpys in Stonetalon have a HUGE aggro radius and they travel in packs. If you think they're far enough away to run by, they're not. Wait until they're ridiculously far away.
2. Gold can regularly be found north of Raynewood Retreat and near Kal Kor in Desolace.
3. Iron is downright abundant along the borders of The Shimmering Flats.
4. I've found quite a bit of silver along the wall in The Hillsbrad Foothills.
5. If you want to smelt a huge pile of bronze in a hurry, simply mine every node you find along the ENTIRE border of Darkshore. While this run might take you about an hour, you'll easily be able to get enough copper and tin ore to fill five 16-slot bags (hence 40-minute smelt times).
Also, a great strategy for finding minerals is what I call "wallcrawling". Once you have a sense of the layout in any area, walk along the border of that area as tightly as possible, staying as high up as you can. In areas surrounded by cliffs, mountains and foothills, you'll find everything available to you throughout that part of the map. Even if you're in an area where death is certain should you run into a monster or two (or ten), your best chance of survival is to jump off that cliff you're scaling and make a run back in the direction you came from. The head start you get from the jump is usually enough to save your hide. As far as I know, I've never seen a monster "jump" down a wall in pursuit of me.
Caves, pretty much as a rule, have high densities of mineral nodes, too, but be sure you've got the skills to slip past whatever haunts those caves. Again, the caves located in Stonetalon are awesome for finding all manner of minerals. The caves throughout the Wetlands are good, too.
That satisfies the bet. Hope it helps. Now, off to find a cache of Star Rubies and maybe a little Arcanite...
it's a small area (around the elite ogres and the cave with non-elite ogres) and you can find iron/mithril with the occassional silver/gold/truesilver.
That and you can pvp for a bit since the zone is loaded with alliance and horde trying to quest.
Character Level Limits
In order to prevent low level characters from mastering high level skills, a certain character level limit is required for each level of profession. You will need a minimum character level to learn a new level of professions. Apprentice requires level 5, Journeyman level 10, Expert level 20 and Artisan requires level 35.
Wahahaha. I don't mean to rag on you, just don't lie. It makes you sound bad.
hi, thanks for the great info !!! im a fellow miner and im getting addicted to it :P im going to mine bronze @ darkshore asap ^^ i hope there arent too much monsters out there waiting to kill me :lol:
Quoted from [url]Wahahaha. I don't mean to rag on you, just don't lie. It makes you sound bad.
Well done Darkeggy, you sleauth you.
Oh! I just had a thought. That feature was added after launch wasn't it? I thought that, at launch, skill was the only training restriction. lvl restrictions were added later.
One other thing to note - mine in the off-hours. Some of the most obvious nodes are left alone during off-hours, since most intelligent people are sleeping (I play from South Korea, so I'm on the flip side from most US players). The density is low enough on most of the servers that you get almost exclusive access to what is normally pretty heavily contested (like those great resources in the Charred Vale, for example).
Never thought mining would be so fun (I'm level 25, 124 mining - now where's some tin so I can get that last skill point!?)
Oh! I just had a thought. That feature was added after launch wasn't it? I thought that, at launch, skill was the only training restriction. lvl restrictions were added later.
Yeah. In beta, i remember having all the tradeskills and making loads of money. And you could have find herbs and find minerals at the same time. Ah..the memories..
Character Level Limits
In order to prevent low level characters from mastering high level skills, a certain character level limit is required for each level of profession. You will need a minimum character level to learn a new level of professions. Apprentice requires level 5, Journeyman level 10, Expert level 20 and Artisan requires level 35.
Wahahaha. I don't mean to rag on you, just don't lie. It makes you sound bad.
iirc gathering skills dont have lvl-requirements, so you should be able to train past the artisan-point (225). to become a artisan though, you indeed need to be lvl 35.
2. Gold can regularly be found north of Raynewood Retreat and near Kal Kor in Desolace.
3. Iron is downright abundant along the borders of The Shimmering Flats.
4. I've found quite a bit of silver along the wall in The Hillsbrad Foothills.
5. If you want to smelt a huge pile of bronze in a hurry, simply mine every node you find along the ENTIRE border of Darkshore. While this run might take you about an hour, you'll easily be able to get enough copper and tin ore to fill five 16-slot bags (hence 40-minute smelt times).
Clearly you dont know what youre talking about. For one, the lvl requirement of 35 for artisan mining.
Secondly, certain minerals spawn at the same place. On spawning the deposit has an X% chance to be the rare mineral, otherwise it ll spawn as the common mineral of the 2. The minerals that spawn on the same place (common/rare):
tin/silver
iron/gold
mithril/truesilver
Copper deposits dont share their spawning points with the other minerals, and I havent achieved a high enough level to know about the minerals that come after truesilver.
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